Bridge Claimed Another One

The only risk of failure is promotion. - Scott Adams

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Life's a game but Bridge is serious. - Unknown

The bridge to the future in the phallus. - D.H. Lawrence

Defendit numerus: There is safety in numbers. - Unknown

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus

Don't risk more than you can afford to lose. - Joe Segal

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you take the risk, you are deserving of the reward. - Joe Segal

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday. - Rodney Dangerfield

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. - Mark Twain

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S Patton

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. - Robert Benchley

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. - George Herbert

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. - David Russell

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T S Eliot

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass. - George Herbert

I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Frederick Wilcox

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. - George Burns

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. - Sarah J. Hale

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

When you're my age, you just never risk being ill - because then everyone says, "Oh, he's done for." - John Gielgud

People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. - Brian Halligan

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. - Peter Barris

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates! - Dave Barry

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B.C. Forbes